Darren Waller

And he was like, if you pick me up and take me to school every day, we can smoke a blunt before we go to school.

And I was like, sign me up.

And then from there, started drinking.

Got into just like Bud Lights and Sky Vodkas in high school and like spring break and stuff like that.

No, not at all because I didn't have any awareness at the time of like, OK –

In order to, like, heal this and effectively, like, put this behind me or grow from this, I have to, like, sit with that discomfort and kind of face it.

I had no awareness at the time.

It was just like, oh, if I...

just move it out the way and kind of stuff it away and do this and feel good.

Like this, this works, this is the formula.

And at that same time, going into like my junior year, senior year in high school, it was like when I started to grow, then the athletic opportunities started to present themselves.

And then it's like, you know, girls start to come into the picture and,

you're more popular.

And so it's like, okay, this is just my formula.

This works for me.

And my grades are still good in school.

And I'm still like, yes, ma'am.

No, sir.

Like looking people in the eye and, you know, everybody thinks highly of me.

And so like, this is just part of who I am.